Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dared Rune set her up like this ? |
| 2 | How dared Nicolo treat her this way ? |
| 3 | There may appear to be a snag to this account : if how ? is compatible with both versions , and if in the " unacquainted " version we could replace imagine by suppose , why is it that ( 46 ) is ungrammatical ? : ( 46 ) how did Oliver suppose her ? |
| 4 | ( 44 ) how did Oliver imagine her ? ( 45 ) what did Oliver imagine her to be ? /what did Oliver imagine her to be like ? |
| 5 | How did Lee think he could see where he was pointing to in the dark ? |
| 6 | How did Mrs do it ? |
| 7 | How did Doris strike you ? |
| 8 | ‘ How did Plummer know I was here ? ’ |
| 9 | How did Guy kill him ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How did Georgina get it ? |
| 11 | ‘ How did Don take it ? |
| 12 | How had Liz managed it , this assembly ? |
| 13 | How had Shama known him ? |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me , ’ said Robert , as they walked up the High Street , ‘ and I 'm not going on about it , but exactly why did Ali sentence me to death ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Why did Madeleine turn you down ? ’ |
| 16 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 17 | ‘ But why did Lanyon write them too ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why did Clem take it into her head to write to you ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why did Vauban make you so angry ? ’ |
| 20 | And all that she could think about was , why did Josie want her out of the way ? |
| 21 | Why did God send us his Holy Spirit ? |
| 22 | So , that would be Freud 's defence , now , I suppose you would have to know a lot more about modern history , to , to know , if this was really true or not , but erm , the the er , question that Freud was really asking himself , really was , why did Wilson let us down , because Freud admits that he regarded Wilson , when he came to Europe as a saviour . |
| 23 | ‘ Where did Sheila get it from ? ’ |
| 24 | And where did Dudley get it from ? |
| 25 | ‘ Where did Scott take you to dinner ? ’ |
| 26 | Where did Matthew get it then ? |
| 27 | Leaning in the kitchen doorway , he watched as she put the kettle on , then asked softly , ‘ When did Ryan tell you he only went out with you for the money ? ’ |
| 28 | Where had Jake got it from ? |
| 29 | Why had Larry done it ? |
| 30 | And why had Jos told him not to touch it ? |